{"id":43486,"date":"2023-03-25T22:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:31:22","slug":"malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available","title":{"rendered":"Malawi has only 193MW of electricity available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says the electricity situation in Malawi is still in an emergency mode, with only 193 Megawatts (MW) of hydro capacity available against a system demand of 300MW.<\/p>\n<p>ESCOM said this today after heavy rains yesterday caused a system shutdown that led to nationwide blackout. \u201cThe Electricity Supply System is still in emergency mode following the flash floods which caused a system shutdown in the afternoon of 12th February 2023,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement today, Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) said it has concluded removal of excessive trash that accumulated at Nkula and Tedzani Power stations.<\/p>\n<p>According to EGENCO, As at 12h00, all machines at Nkula Power Station were back online expect for two machines at Nkula B. \u201cSimilarly, at Tedzani Power Station all machines, except for one machine at Tedzani I \u226a, were back online. Work to restore the remaining machines is in progress,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ESCOM has started supplying power to most parts which were affected by faults including most parts of the Northern Region. However, parts of Mulanje and Phalombe are still affected due to damage on an overhead line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cESCOM will continue to monitor the power supply situation and system stability and will continue to repair the damaged Transmission and Distribution infrastructure,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says the electricity situation in Malawi is still in an emergency mode, with only 193 Megawatts (MW) of hydro capacity available against a system demand of 300MW. ESCOM said this today after heavy rains yesterday caused a system shutdown that led to nationwide blackout. \u201cThe Electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[233,371,129,1780,234],"class_list":["post-43486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-electricity","tag-escom","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malawi has only 193MW of electricity available - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says the electricity situation in Malawi is still in an emergency mode, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malawi has only 193MW of electricity available\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says the electricity situation in Malawi is still in an emergency mode, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-25T22:15:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-25T22:31:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679766373.55.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"337\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malawi has only 193MW of electricity available\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-25T22:15:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-25T22:31:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679766373.55.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"electricity\",\"ESCOM\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-has-only-193mw-of-electricity-available\",\"name\":\"Malawi has only 193MW of electricity available - 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